Thursday, March 7, 2013

Metabolism VI - The Mask of the Pituitary, the Director and the Conflux




THE IGNORANT GENIUS -
NATURAL CHARACTER OF
PITUITARY
The natural character of the pituitary gland is the Ignorant Genius - often people of large build (giants on the extreme end) with strong features (noses, brows) and having an access to insight, intuition and imagination as well as natural skills in management - and its natural mask is the Director.  This role of the director is well suited to pituitary characters as the pituitary gland is the master gland in the system which measures the concentration of various hormones in the blood and adjusts the levels accordingly.  They are the great alchemists and the projects they invest in range from Science to Art - though it must be pointed out they are the inventors rather than the R&D (typically undertaken by Confused Venutian types i.e. Thymus (foriegn body recognition) characters). Remember as the summit of the Metabolism of Time, the Ignorant Genius is associated with the ''Altered Future'', and it is from here where their 'genius' is derived.


THE DIRECTOR -
NATURAL MASK OF
THE PITUITARY
Director's manifest behaviour appropriate to their name - they plan in advance, objectify situations and they control other characters in order to fit them into their grand plan - nominally drawn from their imagination.  Since they are normally in positions of power and authority they also have tremendous resilience to attention and particularly positive attention to which they are virtually immune (like the Vampyr/Many Mannered Mind Man is virtually immune from negative attention).  Since they have power over characters, or at least typically more so than the others, they can *choose* the attention that they want to get.  It is rare to see them glut themselves on positive attention though, as one might expect from one who has power.  Since they objectify things they also objectify themselves and often approach themselves as an object or refer to themselves in the 3rd person (if not vocally, mentally).  Typically then they simply 'top up'on positive attention when it is needed, much like the pituitary gland 'tops up' the hormone levels as needed.
THE ANGEL - PITUITARY
CHARACTER UNDER
NEGATIVE ATTENTION

The negative attention that gets to them normally comes from outside of the group they control typically by critics of their projects whatever they happen to be.  In which case this negative attention will distort the natural mask to that of the Angel.  This distortion will manifest in the following way - mad ranting, intense emotional outbursts, 'my glorious work brought to ruin!' etc.



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